A conference held atHúsavík,
Iceland, August 27-29, 2003 by the Nordic Group for the
Management of Genetic Resources of Trees http://www.skogur.is/
- Dag L
collection Proceeding:
Eysteinsson T (Ed.) 2004. “Forest Genetic resources – their use and
conservation” Abstracts of a conference by the Nordic Group for the Management
of Genetic Resources of Trees. Rit
Mogilsar Rannsoknastödvar Skograktar 2.

Annual Nordic forest geneticists/tree breeders
meetings have been a tradition since the 50ies, starting with provenance
research and seed procurement. The concept “Nordic” has been extended, first to
include Scotland and later to the Baltic countries. It seemed a logic next step
to approach Russia 2005. During the previous years all countries earlier
involved were visited, so 2005 seemed the right moment to try something fresh!

The Nordic group reorganised around 2005 as
GeneCAR,
which was mainly focused on the activities of the Forest Research
Institutes. The support to Nordic cooperation
in Forest Genetics trebled 2005 compared with the situation till 2004, as
earlier only
annual meetings were supported by SNS (Nordic Forest
Research Co-operation Committee)